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So Sue Them: What We’ve Learned About the Debt Collection Lawsuit Machine

by Paul Kiel, ProPublica

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Millions of Americans live with the possibility that, at any moment, their wages or the cash in their bank accounts could be seized over an old debt. It’s an easily ignored part of America’s financial system, in part due to a common attitude that people who don’t pay their debts deserve what’s coming to them.